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In and about Drury Lane / by John Doran ...
LIBRA PN2115 .D6 1881 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doran, Dr. (John), 1807-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Anecdotes.
- Theater.
- Actors.
- England.
- Actors--England.
- London (England)--Social life and customs.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : F.A. Niccolls & Co., [1881?]
- Contents:
- Vol. 1. In and about Drury Lane. About Master Betty. Charles Young and his times. William Charles Macready. Private theatricals. The smell of the lamps. A line of French actresses. Some eccentricities of the French stage. Northumberland house and the Percys. Leicester fields. A hundred years ago. Life in the nineteenth century
- v. 2. The postman's knock. The twenty-thousand-pound widow. To Brighton and back again. On some clubs, and their ends. Through the parks. Some Scotswomen. The Dibdins. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Edward Wortley Montagu. Royal and imperial jokers.
- Notes:
- "Reprinted ... from the pages of the Temple Bar magazine."
- OCLC:
- 5628064
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